Ice-creeper



(No Model.)

A. R. BRADBEN. IUBGREBPER.

No. 593,530. Patented Nov. 9, 1897.

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ICE-CREEPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 593,530, dated November 9, 1897.

Application led January 13, 1896. Serial No. 575,215. (No model.)

T0 @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANSEL R. B RADEEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of Vashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ice-Creepers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to ice-creepers, and has for its object to provide a creeper which is simple and cheap of construction and whichA maybe quickly attached to and removed from the shoe by a locking device.

Figure l shows my device applied to the bottom of a shoe both in the form used for the heel and the ball of the shoe. Fig. 2 is the heel-creeper in its locked position as seen from the upper side of that next to the heel. Fig. 3 is the same in its unlocked or open position. Fig. 4 is an edge view of the same. Figs. 5 and 6 are bottom and edge views of a form in which the spurs are stamped out of the metal.

The object of my invention is to provide a creeper which may be quickly attached to and removed from the shoe by a locking-lever. It consists of the two thin metal plates A and B, each of which has the circularly-curved or hooked arm e on the inner side of the plate. A locking-lever D is pivoted to the extremity of each of these arms. These arms have a recess e between them and the body of the plate so shaped that it will just receive the arm of the other plate and allow the centers to pass slightly beyond each other, so that their line makes an angle with the center line of the plates. The outer arm of the lever D in the locked position lies alongside of and is stopped by one of the calks or spurs C, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or by the ends of the arms of the plates coming in contact with the side of the opposite arms.

The front'plate of the heel-creeper has three calks or spurs C, while the rear plate has a single one. The front plate has two upturned arms a, which are also recurved or inwardly turned and sharpened. The rear plate has a single arm of this sort. When the creeper is applied,these points are forcedinto the leather of the heel by the action of the lever D. As the line of they pivots is carried beyond the center line the strain upon the parts will tend to hold them in this position. To render the loosening or unlocking of the device still more difficult, a small catch vF is upturned from one edge of the plate B. The lever D drops back of this and is securely held by it.

As a creeper for the ball of the shoe the opposite plates are made alike or like the front plate ofthe heel, with three calks or spurs on a side. The locking-lever when open lies back under the instep and in locking swings forward to one side of the shoe.

These creepers will be made in a few sizes to tit different sizes of shoes. The points on the arms a will be made long enough so that they may sink more or less into the leather. The spurs C are the ordinary loggers spikes, which are riveted into holes in the plates and may be readily renewed when worn out.

My device is well adapted to the use of loggers, hunters, woodsmen, and others who are regularly or occasionally called to be upon places where they are liable to slip. Being so quickly and readily put on and taken off, it may be used in many cases where anything not so readily applied would not be tolerated.

The pivoting of the locking-lever D to the hooked arms c should be such that the inner edges of the arms should be brought in contact with each other when locked. This takes a large part of the strain oft of the pivots and makes them stronger to resist a strain than it' the pivots alone were depended upon. The edges of the arms should also bear upon the side of the opposite arm, which will thus act as a stop to limit its swing.

InFigs. 5 and 6 the inserted calks or spurs are not used. In their place points C are formed by stamping out portions of the metal. These might also be formed by turning down a portion of the sides, as shown in dotted lines at C2. f Y Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-fl. In an ice-creeper, the combination with two plates having upturned lips for engaging the sides of the shoe-sole and arms upon their inner edges curved or hooked so that they may lap by each other in the same plane, and downwardly-projecting spurs attached to said plates, of a locking-lever pivoted to the ex-A tremities of the curved arms so that the pivotcenters may be carried beyond the line of strain, substantially as shown and described.

2. In an ice-Creeper, the combination with two plates having arms upon their inner edges so curved or hooked that they may Ypass by each other in the same plane,A of a lever pivoted to the extremities of these curved arms so that the pivot-centers may in looking pass beyond the line of strain, substantially as shown and described.

3. In an ice-creeper, the combination with two plates having upwardly-projecting lips engaging the sides of the shoe-sole, and downwardly-projecting spurs, of curved or hookshaped arms projecting inwardly from the body of the plates and forming recesses between said arms and the body of the plates which are each adapted to receive the outer portion of the hooked arm of the opposite plate, and a locking-lever pivoted to the extremities of said hooked arms, the whole being so proportioned that in locking the pivot- -forming recesses between said arms and the body of the plates which are each adapted to receive the body portion of the hooked arm of the other plate, with a locking-lever pivoted to the extremities of said hooked arms so thatl in locking the pivot-centers will pass by the line of strain, and a catch attached to one of the plates tohold said locking-lover against a return, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ANSEL R. BRADEEN.

Vitnesses:

JAMES B. MURPHY, H. L. REYNOLDS. 

